The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Owen Gingerich, Johannes Kepler, Guillermo Bleichmar, Jacques Bromberg

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

Owen Gingerich, Johannes Kepler, Guillermo Bleichmar, Jacques Bromberg

150 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
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"In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked before and one that couldn't actually be answered for another three centuries. Still, ...

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